Rare find by UB archaeologist provides new insight into Etruscan life under Rome

SUNY Buffalo ^ | September 1, 2022 | Bert Gambini

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The... burial site in the southern Tuscany region of Italy... survived the Roman conquest of Etruria...

Analysis of the grave goods (items buried along with the bodies) and burying rituals from the necropolis, one of the few sites untouched by looters in either antiquity or modernity, suggests how the many entrenched and distinct characteristics of the Etruscan population survived in the presence of the dominant Roman power and its associated law.

These persistent and complex Etruscan traditions continued for more than two centuries after the Roman conquest in ways that shaped the social, cultural and economic habits of the territory until the small rural community's violent destruction during the Social Wars...

UB's classics department, under Sebastiani's direction and in partnership with The Cooper Union and Michigan State University, started work in 2017... in the Tuscan municipality of Civitella Pagnico...

The site of the current research, however, is on private property (its exact location has not been made public). A construction project years ago revealed traces of a settlement, which researchers investigated at the time but never published. That discovery was largely forgotten until the property's owner, an amateur archaeologist who assisted Sebastiani on previous digs, reached out to see what might be done at the location...

...IMPERO went to Podere Cannicci, a part of Tuscany where the Etruscans weren’t previously thought to have inhabited and settled...

...Sebastiani says. "Because these sites have been looted for gold, it’s quite rare to find one untouched, with all of the grave goods present after more than 2,200 years, including gold earrings, gold crowns, bronze rings with the representation of Hercules, iron strigils (a tool for cleaning the body) and fine pottery..."

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Aerial view of Castellaraccio di Monteverdi, the medieval site investigated by the IMPERO Project.

Aerial view of Castellaraccio di Monteverdi, the medieval site investigated by the IMPERO Project.

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The Etruscans lived between the Dtruscans and Ftruscans.

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HD had a summary of the article, but it seemed kinda poor, so I tracked down the original. The HD link didn’t actually lead to it, nice goin’.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/09/archaeological-site-reveals-new-insights-into-etruscan-identity/144576

[centurion316]

The Romans were tolerant of other religions within certain boundaries. They didn’t care for monotheism, like Christianity, but they generally were prepared to invite new gods to the panoply. Constantine changed all of that.

[mass55th]

In the last episode of Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates, Gates went to Italy to visit recent discoveries pertaining to the Etruscans.

Finding Italy's Lost Empire

[Tallguy]

That’s probably because everybody’s panoply of gods were derived from the same Indo-European panoply. So one Goddess of agriculture was pretty much like another.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I really hope that some one will discover a complete set of Claudius' works.

All of this was known, it was written down and now it is lost.

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My pleasure.

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Whoops, I mean, thank you! [blush]